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Overview

The following describes our community networking testbed. There are local testbeds that are connected together by the pan-European Federica infrastructure built on the Géant network. As a result, the testbed servers and the experimental nodes are virtually together (federated network) independently of the community network they belong to.

If you want to deploy your own testbed, follow the instructions shown here Node installation to know how to deploy your own nodes.

Interconnection (network federation)

The testbed servers and the experimental nodes are virtually together (federated network) independently of the community network they belong to.

MORE DETAILS (addressing, entry points, characteristics and parameters of each virtual hop)

UPC+Pangea+Guifi.net

The testbed nodes located around UPC and our servers are located at one UPC computing centre, isolated from the UPC network, and connected to other Guifi.net nodes via community nodes at the UPC campus, and to other partners, testbeds and external experimenters through a 1 Gbps optical fibre UPC-CESCA that leads to:

A VLAN link to Federica via CESCA-Rediris: that places the remaining CONFINE hosts in the same virtual LAN

The academic networks: external researchers can reach our nodes and servers using its academic IP addresses (provided by CESCA)

The local CATNIX Internet Exchange: external non-academic experimenters can reach the testbed through that point.

Since Community-Lab nodes in the Guifi and UPCcloud islands are not ensured to have Internet connection, the ConfineCatPlugin ad-hoc firmware generator plugin has been put in place to add some names in the RD's /etc/hosts file: